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Citizenship, immigration & refugee rights
Citoyenneté, immigration et droits des réfugié.es
Le Canada veut partager plus d'informations biométriques avec ses alliés
Radio-Canada 19/02/2014 - Le Canada envisage un partage bien plus important des informations en lien avec son service d'immigration, comme les empreintes digitales des demandeurs de visas, et ce non seulement avec les États-Unis, mais également avec d'autres alliés importants. Une note interne préparée à l'attention du ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration, Chris Alexander, révèle que le gouvernement met actuellement sur pied un système technologique  pouvant être utilisé pour l'échange de données biométriques avec la Grande-Bretagne, l'Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande. Le gouvernement fédéral participe déjà à un processus de partage important d'informations liées à l'immigration avec les États-Unis, en vertu d'un pacte de sécurité. De son côté, la commissaire à la protection de la vie privée a déjà fait part de ses inquiétudes à propos du partage routinier d'un grand volume d'informations avec d'autres pays, disant qu'il pourrait être impossible de contrôler ce qui arrivera à ces données une fois qu'elles sont transmises à l'étranger. Lire plusCanada pursues wider biometric info sharing among Five Eyes countries |
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Suppression de la dissidence
Suppression of dissent
Des ONG progressistes sous la loupe du fisc
La Presse 17/02/2014 - La Presse a recensé près d'une dizaine de groupes à caractère progressiste qui font actuellement l'objet de telles vérifications au Québec et ailleurs au pays, dont les organismes Kairos, Amnistie internationale Canada, Canada sans pauvreté et le Centre canadien des politiques alternatives. Ces vérifications s'ajoutent à celles révélées la semaine dernière, qui sont actuellement menées  auprès de sept groupes environnementaux, dont Équiterre et la Fondation David Suzuki. La majorité de ces organismes ont en commun d'avoir pris position contre des politiques du gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper. L'Agence du revenu du Canada (ARC) affirme que les entités vérifiées sont choisies de manière aléatoire, en fonction de leurs déclarations fiscales ou à la suite de plaintes. Mais plusieurs craignent qu'on n'utilise maintenant le fisc canadien pour affaiblir les opposants au gouvernement fédéral. Lire plus - Read more
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Freedom of the press
Liberté de la presse
Glenn Greenwald: On the UK's equating of journalism with terrorismThe Intercept 19/02/2014 - The UK Government expressly argued that the release of the Snowden documents (which the free world calls " award- winning journalism") is actually tantamount to "terrorism", the same theory now being used by the Egyptian military regime to prosecute Al Jazeera journalists as terrorists. Congratulations to the UK government on the illustrious company it is once again keeping. British officials have also repeatedly threatened criminal prosecution of everyone involved in this reporting, including Guardian journalists and editors. Equating journalism with terrorism has a long and storied tradition. Indeed,  as Jon Schwarz has documented, the U.S. Government has frequently denounced nations for doing exactly this. Just last April, Under Secretary of State Tara Sonenshine dramatically informed the public that many repressive, terrible nations actually "misuse terrorism laws to prosecute and imprison journalists." When visiting Ethiopia in 2012, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns publicly disclosed that in meetings with that nation's officials, the United States "express[ed] our concern that the application of anti-terrorism laws can sometimes undermine freedom of expression and independent media." The same year, the State Department reported that Burundi was prosecuting a journalist under terrorism laws. It should surprise nobody that the UK is not merely included in, but is one of the leaders of, this group of nations which regularly wages war on basic press freedoms. Read more - Lire plusCourt: Obstructing 'journalism' OK... If you call it 'terrorism'Affaire Snowden : l'arrestation de David Miranda jugée légaleGlenn Greenwald: 'No question' I'll return to the USPolk awards go to journalists entrusted with Snowden NSA docsOpinion: Authoritarian regimes (like the U.S. and Britain) treat reporters like terroristsMohamed Fahmy, Canadian journalist in Egypt, hears charges Al Jazeera regrets staff trial adjournment |
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Canada, CSEC and mass surveillance
Canada, CSTC et surveillance globale
CSEC exoneration a 'mockery of public accountability'
CBC News 14/02/2014 - A federal watchdog is attracting howls of protest from some privacy and internet experts after absolving Canada's electronic spy agency of using data from a Canadian airport internet service to track thousands of passengers for days after they left the terminal. (...) Ontario's privacy commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, says she is disappointed by the ruling. "CSEC isn't tracking? I don't know what that means...Does he [Plouffe] mean that collecting metadata can't equal the tracking of Canadians?" (...) Deibert is director of the Citizen  Lab for cyber issues at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. He says metadata can be far more invasive than the content of a person's actual phone calls and emails. "Let's be clear: Our movements, social relationships, habits, meetings, personal preferences, with whom we communicate and for how long, the websites we visit - all of that and more is what the government asserts it can collect and analyze," Deibert says. "That is deeply troublesome." Privacy commissioner Cavoukian says she was stunned to learn the ruling on CSEC was based almost entirely on Plouffe and his staff talking to the spy agency's employees.
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US, NSA and mass surveillance
États-Unis, NSA et surveillance globale
The Intercept 18/02/2014 - Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution. The efforts - detailed  in documents provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden - included a broad campaign of international pressure aimed not only at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but at what the U.S. government calls "the human network that supports WikiLeaks." The documents also contain internal discussions about targeting the file-sharing site Pirate Bay and hacktivist collectives such as Anonymous. Read more - Lire plusJulian Assange - We demand an investigation: NSA and GCHQ spying on WikiLeaksSpying by N.S.A. ally entangled U.S. law firm
The New York Times 15/02/2014 - The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers. A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States. The disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a specific instance in  which Americans were ensnared by the eavesdroppers, and is of particular interest because lawyers in the United States with clients overseas have expressed growing concern that their confidential communications could be compromised by such surveillance. The government of Indonesia had retained the law firm for help in trade talks, according to the February 2013 document. It reports that the N.S.A.'s Australian counterpart, the Australian Signals Directorate, notified the agency that it was conducting surveillance of the talks, including communications between Indonesian officials and the American law firm, and offered to share the information. Read more - Lire plusIndonesia takes aim at Australia over spying on talks but not the USSpy chief: We should've told you we track your callsWill US expand NSA surveillance?Opinion: Information cascades and intelligence oversightAttorney for Edward Snowden interrogated at U.K. airport, placed on "inhibited persons list"N.S.A. forces out civilian employee with Snowden tieBen Hayes's report - State of Surveillance: the NSA files and the global fightbackDebate: Was Snowden justified? Former NSA counsel Stewart Baker vs. whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg |
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Afghanistan
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Data
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Drones
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Pakistan
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Primauté du droit
Rule of law
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Surveillance
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The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG - Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC
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Event
50 ans - Hommage à la Ligue des droits et libertés
Le spectacle-bénéfice de la Ligue des droits et libertés à lieu ce jeudi 20 février 2014, 19h, au Cabaret du Mile-End, 5240 avenue du Parc. Pour informations et achat de billets: info@liguedesdroits.ca ou 514-849-7717 (poste 21)
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Action
Canadian campaign against mass surveillance: Call on your MP to stand against costly online spying
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What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualité?
The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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